to receiving what is heard. Compare x. 3, 16, 27; xii. 47; Xvili. 37.
61. Offend (cKavdanrifer). Rev., cause to stumble. See on Matt. v. 29. Wrye., slandereth you.
62. What and if ye shall see (dav ody Sewpfre). The question is marked by an aposiopesis, i.e., a breaking off of the sentence and leaving the hearer to complete it for himself. Lit., of then ye should behold, ete.—the completion would be,
‘would not this still more cause you to stumble ?
Ascend (avaBaivovra). Rev., properly, renders the participle, ascending.
I speak (AaA@). But the correct reading is XeddAnxa, the perfect tense, J have spoken, or I have just spoken, referring to the preceding discourse.
64. Should betray (7rapadécwv). See on Matt. iv. 12; Mark iv. 29. Judas is once in the New Testament designated by the noun mpodorns, tractor, Luke vi. 16.
66. From that time (é« tovrov). Render, as Rev., upon this. As a result proceeding out of (éx) this. Compare xix. 12.
Went back (amf\Jov eis ra Oricw). The Greek expresses more than the English. They went away (amo) from Christ, lit., to the things behind, to what they had left in order to fol- low the Lord.
Walked (cepserdrovv). Lit., walked about, with Jesus in His wanderings here and there.
67. The twelve. John assumes that the number is known. It is implied in the twelve baskets of fragments. As in so many other instances in this Gospel, facts of the synoptic nar- rative are taken for granted as familiar.